Merriman v. Caton

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

This is an appeal by defendant Frank Catón from a summary judgment entered on plaintiff’s petition for money due and owing, and on Caton’s counterclaim and cross-claim in quantum meruit for labor performed.

For ten years beginning in 1952 Catón was the tenant of Jack D. Merriman and J. B. Dillingham under an oral agreement that he should pay as rental one half of the crops produced on the land. This tenancy was terminated by Merriman and Dilling-ham effective March 1, 1962. In June of that year Merriman brought suit against Catón to recover the sum of $2,400, the balance…